How To Use Agonistic In A Sentence

It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
So essentially antagonistic class interests sharing the same region find themselves allying with each other in their mutual self-interests.
By these tests we plainly understand the “flesh” to be antagonistical to the Spirit. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
I am not in any way saying this to be antagonistic, nor to disparage anyone's beliefs; that isn't my way, or my purpose in starting this.
The ceremony at the square was watched by more than three thousand people, including many who had been so antagonistic to him.

Deeply antagonistic to reformist compromises with bourgeois democracy, syndicalists also disputed the Leninist strategy of organizing revolution via a vanguard party.
Urine-borne chemical cues influence the progression and outcome of agonistic encounters in lobsters and crayfish.
a dialectical and agonistic approach
His brothers had been, by turns, indifferent and antagonistic to this last-born of the Angevin eaglets... with one exception. HERE BE DRAGONS
It is clear that you and your daughter have had a difficult and at times antagonistic relationship over the years. Times, Sunday Times
It has both agonistic actions and weak opioid antagonistic activity.
Models of interference competition, therefore, do not provide a satisfying answer to the question why foragers interact agonistically in such systems.
This is compatible with a genuine antagonistic action of the drugs during their gradual diffusion and washout.
Multiple signaling transduction pathways are involved in plant defense responses to insect herbivores, and they can interact with each other, either synergistically or antagonistically.
The European Union is facing very high unemployment, and two antagonistic social logics are counterposed to each other.
Would any of the societies be antagonistic to each other?
The more severe this imbalance, he says, the more the orthorexic feels antagonistic toward the environment, becoming hyperaware of external impurities. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Thus grooming partners may form a coalition during agonistic encounters.
It is because monarchy was beginning to be odious in the eyes of the European democracy, when contrasted with our antagonistical system of the divine right of the people. The Right of American Slavery
To do so is to embrace an agonistic romanticism of perpetually unfulfilled longing and desire.
These were impressive feats of both memory and humility, with the singer accepting his share of blame for their mutually antagonistic relationship. Times, Sunday Times
It was a potential measure to screen antagonistic bacteria and produce microbial germicide in the control of fusarium wilt of banana.
There was, as Margaret truly said, but one right and one wrong; the painful right, and the pleasant wrong, stood now in antagonistic contrast to each other. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
You're either a poor communicator or knowingly behaving in an extremely antagonistic and unconstructive manner.
Beyond this, however, Connolly's model of a pluralism that can legitimately admire a diversity of metaphysical perspectives (rather than simply tolerate them) looks rather like an agonistic version of Introduction
This statement accurately sets the antagonistic tone of the entire narration.
he behaves antagonistically toward his colleagues
The development of all antagonistic substances which confer the special character on antimicrobic sera, as well as antitoxins, may be expressed as the formation of bodies with specific combining affinity for the organic substance introduced into the system -- toxin, bacterium, red corpuscle, &c., as the case may be. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
It can lead to the creation of entirely new forms of social structure -- the coffee house or the commune -- but these have to be adopted by individuals, consolidated into subcultures, and able to survive a reactionary mainstream that is innately antagonistic to subcultures of alternativity. More Aesthetics
To a large extent these two approaches have been mutually exclusive, not to say antagonistic.
Apomorphine is also currently under study for use in the therapy of male impotence because of its dopamine agonistic effects.
The idea that in such an agonistic system any truth or justice, or even true facts, reliably result is, to my mind, quite analogous to the muddle of “the invisible hand” in economics, or the idea that “competition” necessarily results in an optimal market. Justin Raimondo vs. Christopher Hitchens on al-Jazeera « Antiwar.com Blog
Lutheranism developed in two different directions, somewhat antagonistic to one another.
He was rude and antagonistic to my friends, kept picking arguments and was often deliberately provocative, manipulating people into tense arguments.
If someone is supportive individually but becomes antagonistic or noncommittal in a later "big meeting," you can always tactfully refresh their memory about an earlier favorable position.
I was disappointed that our elected representative was so antagonistic to councillors who were working hard to resolve the dispute.
Nicotine and the snake venom also bind these receptors with agonistic and antagonistic effects, respectively.
Such an antagonistic effect of UVA could potentially explain much of the controversy.
Any hypothesis testing of head butting in pachycephalosaurids, combat in ceratopsids or similar agonistic encounters must take into account the fact that the skulls of these dinosaurs are composed largely of metaplastic tissue. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus, use territorial advertisement in the form of agonistic displays and pheromonal scent marking as a mechanism for intraspecific interference competition.
Such she did feel; and thus between two human beings, as much antagonistical perhaps, in every particular, as Nature ever presented, was already established Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
In addition, we recorded all occurrences of the following agonistic behaviors: chases, fights, parallel runs, and squeal displays.
It ends up like that General in New Orleans, trying *trying* to get important information out about disaster preparedness, having to face reflexively antagonistic journalists and famously pronouncing, "You're stuck on stupid. A frightening mix of bodily fluids.
The belief that resource scarcity can be transcended by industrialism unites many seemingly antagonistic political standpoints.
Also, they will foot grasp, lip-smack, nuzzle, gently grasp one another and sit pressed together in addition to agonistically responding to strangers.
From the first inroads of the whites upon what the Indians considered their lawful possessions, although by them unoccupied -- namely, the territory known as Kan-tuck-kee -- up to the year which opens our story, there had been scarcely any cessation of hostilities between the two races so antagonistical in their habits and principles. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
This is partly because the work's previous presentation in a Broadway house under the auspices of Cameron Mackintosh, known for blockbuster musicals, stirred up a somewhat antagonistic debate: Is this theater or, h eaven forfend, a ballet? Fair Feathered Friends
Since capitalism was to be the final form of society based on antagonistic class relations, socialism would be a classless society. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
I suspect some kind of antagonistic pleiotropy may be at work. Archive 2008-04-01
See involuntary muscles, antagonistic muscles. Biology Basic Facts
In this case, the narratives tend to have a less univocally negative or agonistic flavor and reflect both the triumphs and tribulations of an individual's life experiences.
Although there are no footdrumming exchanges, agonistic interactions are avoided because footdrumming is done exclusively inside the burrow by the kangaroo rat avoiding contact with the one outside the burrow.
It follows, that the desire to be well must be excited simultaneously with any principle which shall be merely a modification of combativeness, but in the case of that something which I term perverseness, the desire to be well is not only not aroused, but a strongly antagonistical sentiment exists. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
In addition, they may have agonistic effects on the noradrenergic and serotonin systems.
The commission on men may well die on the vine from being stacked with members who are antagonistic to, or ignorant of, men's issues.
Mr Bright became ill after a morning of increasingly antagonistic and complex cross-examination. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, AngloSaxon corporatism was constrained in two important ways: by an infelicitous social setting and by unresponsive, even antagonistic, state institutions.
Any long-term antagonistic relationship seemed to harbor this kind of codependency.
In the very able and interesting article in our last number, by Mr. Freeland, that writer announced the doctrine that 'the social, political, religious, and scientific development of the world proceeds under the operation of two grand antagonistic principles,' which he calls respectively, 'Unity,' and 'Individuality.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Morphine and like narcotic agonists have agonistic actions.
I'm familiar with feminist politics here at home over the past several decades, and they can get pretty wrangy at times (indeed the word "internecine" has come to mind on occasion), so I'm not surprised that there are widely divergent, even antagonistic, factions within the Afghan women's movement. Trash talk
Nor are most Australians of Irish descent (partial or complete) antagonistic to Britain.
The gospel brings about a reconciliation between groups which were formerly antagonistic to one another.
The metaphysical mode of explanation, being less antagonistic than the theological to the idea of invariable laws, is still slower in being entirely discarded. Auguste Comte and Positivism
It is suggested that an element of felineness and an element of canineness adhere in the cells of each, and the two are antagonistic. The Breath of Life
Burckhardt and Nietzsche were colleagues in Basel, and each developed an "agonistic" theory of society. Book review of Hugh Trevor-Roper's "History and the Enlightenment"
For market fundamentalists, life is an agonistic struggle of individuals, each of whom is fundamentally alone and solely responsible for her own life. Elissa D. Barrett: The Rest is Commentary: Jewish Post-Election Reflection
Regardless of the extent to which groups of investors do or do not become antagonistic, individual renegades will doubtlessly stir the pot. The 14th Banker: Mortgage Mess Battle Lines Being Drawn
The prevalent mode of social interaction today is what David Riesman, in The Lonely Crowd, referred to as antagonistic cooperation, in which a cult of teamwork conceals the struggle for survival within bureaucratic organizations. Corrupt Sports: An Exchange
A lot of people refuse to work with Paula. Her manner is just too antagonistic.
This can feel aggressively antagonistic. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, while he crafts himself as a colonial administrator, he simultaneously comes to be critical of the discourses and practices that surround him, becoming agonistically positioned by urges towards a welfarist (though not necessarily humanitarian) system of government which the financially strained central government will not allow.
The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion.
To do so is to embrace an agonistic romanticism of perpetually unfulfilled longing and desire.
It is deeply rooted in place and profoundly antagonistic to market values.
The naturalistic conclusion is antagonistic to theistic religion and leads to non-theistic belief systems, laws, morals and ethics that sharply conflict with those derived from the major religions of the world.
Rush Limbaugh in my honest opinion I believe that you are just an agonistic pig, who do not have a heart. Think Progress » Limbaugh stands by his Haiti remarks, tells critical caller she’s a ‘bigot’ with ‘tampons in her ears.’
In the future we might have a Government that is pretty antagonistic to the aid community, and is running some rather strange foreign policy agendas.
Women were antagonistic to him, and Mrs. Mangan, godly matron though she was, seemed to him to symbolize a very different ordering of life to that which he approved; but the Big Doctor was an asset of the Church who must be simpered upon, and for whose sake a little social boredom must be unrepiningly endured. Mount Music
The continueing antagonistic attitudes of the right wingers and fundies towards Islam are based in their need for Armageddon and the Rapture to happen to validate their beliefs. Think Progress » Frank Gaffney Posits That Missile Defense Logo Is Evidence of Obama’s ‘Submission To Shariah’
Offenders often fail to realize the severity of their crimes, and an antagonistic prison environment can exacerbate feelings of being wrongly accused and hamper treatment.
It is no longer possible for any section of the global population to cling to a system of thinking that is uncompromisingly antagonistic to the thinking of others.
To accomplish this I looked for adjustments to the singing performances of each male and determined if these adjustments related to the probability that the contestants would behave agonistically towards one another.
It follows, that the desire to be well must be excited simultaneously with any principle which shall be merely a modification of combativeness, but in the case of that something which I term perverseness, the desire to be well is not only aroused, but a strongly antagonistical sentiment exists. The Imp of the Perverse
Conditions for the selective maintenance of stable polymorphisms by antagonistic pleiotropy are quite restrictive.
Nor had those antagonistic forces been dormant, which are always at work wearing down the surface of the land; the great piles of strata had been intersected by many wide valleys, and the trees, now changed into silex, were exposed projecting from the volcanic soil, now changed into rock, whence formerly, in a green and budding state, they had raised their lofty heads. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
The two evolved from antagonistic opponents to companionable partners, and would play practice rounds all day.
Many physicians provide their patients on MAOIs with one or two 10-mg tablets of the calcium channel antagonist, nifedipine, and instruct them to take one sublingually for its alpha-adrenergic antagonistic effects immediately upon noticing any signs of acute hypertension. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
Greek city-states were fiercely independent and often profoundly antagonistic to their immediate Greek neighbours.
Now, among nations, there is only America to fear, and it has never been difficult to get Britons to feel antagonistic towards the Yanks.
Cibber's antagonistical views towards Pantomime were shared, as we shall see, by a good many others. A History of Pantomime
All antagonistic colours, or contrasts, likewise afford the neutral black by composition; but in all the modes of producing black by compounding colours, blue is to be regarded as its archeus or predominating colour, and yellow as subordinate to red, in the proportions, when their hues are true, of eight blue, five red, and three yellow. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
The capitalist profit motive is antagonistic to public health, preferring to treat illness rather than preventing it.
How can we reconcile the low frequency of expressions of emotional involvement in election campaigns with the high frequency of antagonistic partisanship?
These two communities are often antagonistic to each other, and I think that may be because they do not understand each other.
The results of the antagonistic test in the lab and the control experiment in the fields show that the agricultural chemical carbendazim is able to inhibit this disease spreading effectively.
And this idea has become so ingrained in the American mind that it will be difficult to gain credence for the assertion that the terms constitutionalism and absolutism represent the forces or systems which, have really been antagonistic ever since Christianity began to affect and animate social and political relations. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
The right wing press has always been deeply antagonistic towards the Labour party.
Although antagonistic to this cultural heritage, their critiques can themselves be said to assume a national frame.
At the same time, after years of ecstatic expansion, traditional information technology departments found themselves entangled in an unsupportable jumble of disparate and antagonistic systems.
And these two conditions we may call antagonistic, as far as our efforts at practical settlement are concerned. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
Or probably there may exist 'cross magnetism, 'that is to say the inharmonious magnetism of different members who are antagonistic to each other. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
February 9th, 2010 at 12: 45 am glamourdammerung says: drhunt says: bela-what personal details I share on a progressive blog with antagonistic anonymous textfields in cyberspace is not your concern and IS my right. Think Progress » Bolton: Either Iran Gets Nukes Or ‘Israel Or Somebody Else Uses Military Force To Stop It’
Many physicians provide their patients on MAOIs with one or two 10-mg tablets of the calcium channel antagonist, nifedipine, and instruct them to take one sublingually for its alpha-adrenergic antagonistic effects immediately upon noticing any signs of acute hypertension. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik.
These color-pairs are known as antagonistic or complementary colors. The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners
But the effect of this is to place them in antagonistic relations in reference to the fiscal action of the government and the entire course of policy therewith connected. Write Your Calhounian Class Autobiography, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I am left wondering what moves people to be so antagonistic to two beautiful and harmless wild creatures.
If our information be entirely correct in regard to the political tendencies and Fremont bias of this professor, ought he not to be "required to leave", at least dismissed from a situation where his poisonous influence is so powerful, and his teachings so antagonistical to the "honor and safety" of the University and the State? Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick
One important hypothesis is that such signals impose social (or 'maintenance') costs incurred through repeated agonistic interactions with other individuals9, 10, 11, 12. Beckwith on ID
Attention to what Jean-Luc Nancy called the "excription" of meaning, the outside of thought, does not necessarily temper the paranoid bent of critical agonistics (105). _Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism
Baudrillard contends, through an adaptation of Mauss, that all systems regulate themselves through dual, agonistic movements.
They found that the organization of sports stifled the inherent joy of the athletic experience, encouraged violence, hatred for the opposition and sexism, and discouraged intellectual and creative pursuits which were deemed "unmasculine" and antagonistic to their development as athletes. Corrupt Sports: An Exchange
Rank was ascertained by observation of agonistic interactions between study animals.
The children can also become antagonistic towards the parents and refuse to get out of bed or to go to the lavatory.
Courtroom dramas often include a scene where an antagonistic prosecutor points his finger at a defendant and asks accusatorially, "Why did you kill your partner?" implying that the person -- who has pleaded not guilty -- did kill the partner. Jerry Weissman: "When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife?"
It has both agonistic actions and weak opioid antagonistic activity.
In 1945 Rhee possessed moral authority and commanded deep respect, even among those antagonistic to his conservatism.
This combination has been well called antagonistic coöperation. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
If we had an antagonistic relationship, it is a battle we would struggle to win. Times, Sunday Times
Both hormones are antagonistic to insulin and hence increase blood glucose.
Furthermore, an antagonistic effect of added amino acids, such as glutamine, on sucrose-induced GS expression was observed.
In aiming to establish this, I may be thought to be endeavouring to establish a counter-thesis to that of the preceding essay on alchemy, but, in virtue of the alchemists 'belief in the mystical unity of all things, in the analogical or correspondential relationship of all parts of the universe to each other, the mystical and the phallic views of the origin of alchemy are complementary, not antagonistic. Bygone Beliefs
One tradition is the covenant one and is antagonistic to a straight forward nationalist sentiment.
The writers paid by the party antagonistic to the Borgia growth in power therefore slung the more scurrile accusation. She Stands Accused
From this opening we learn that Bobby is intense and serious, Ricky is a cocky bigmouth who suffers for his ego, both are pathetic and antagonistic to each other, and they know how to take quite a beating.
Clothing ideals were part of the larger social world in which social identity was agonistically nurtured and won or lost.
Prior to this, the peninsula consisted of often mutually antagonistic kingdoms, duchies, city-states, and principalities.
But it also implies an antagonistic, or potentially antagonistic relation between the parties to the bargain. Television - policy and culture
The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion.
See antagonistic muscles, involuntary muscles, voluntary muscles. Biology Basic Facts
Powerful, antagonistic, and crafty were the words that best described the endoskeletal space‑going AAnn. Nor Crystal Tears
The agonistic behavior of many group-living animals, such as wintering passerines, ranges from overt aggression to more or less ritualized threat displays.
It successfully produces delinquents, creating a criminal section of the population and thereby dividing the subordinate classes into mutually antagonistic fractions.
Rather he makes an antagonistic statement, couched as a rhetorical question.
Instead of the bloody duels of epic, the new model of competition is the agonistic singing of the goatherds.
the biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles
Cheles states simply, "[Chess] involves two antagonistic sides of which the strongest wins," noting that this would accord with the proximity of the impresa of the tenacious ostrich in the dado beneath. 253 Tenzer adds: "The carved pieces should be associated with skill of mind predominating over Fortune to achieve victory, not only in the game of chess but also in the more serious pursuit of war. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Indeed, hers is a strikingly nonhistorical and nondialectical account of antagonistic social dynamics constitutive of an apprehensible social totality.
'John Anderson my Jo,' 'The Last Rose of Summer,' and kindred airs, could always 'bring down the house,' no matter what the antagonistical musical attraction might be. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
Initially, we sympathize with him in his battles with his antagonistic neighbours and their unreasonable demands.
The arms are an important means of defence of our vulnerable points, including the head, chest, and abdomen, as well as of antagonistic connections to others.
Marxism teaches that modern capitalist society is a society of antagonistic classes.
Just like the old days when he would be out there with Mizner and the guys, running along the sidewalks of Kernsville in pretend slow motion as the half-miler Benny Vaughn did his mock-serious announcer, giving them all funny foreignized names to make them sound more glamorous, doing the play-by-play as they made agonistic faces and leaned histrionically toward the imaginary finish line. Again to Carthage
Further, close observations of agonistic interactions revealed that individuals who were the first to display the eyespot were almost invariably the winners and ultimate social dominants.
The osmoregulatory actions of growth hormone and prolactin are antagonistic.
How can we reconcile the low frequency of expressions of emotional involvement in election campaigns with the high frequency of antagonistic partisanship?
Powerful, antagonistic, and crafty were the words that best described the endoskeletal space-going AAnn. Nor Crystal Tears
In addition to the expectations of domestic constituencies, Lula must confront the antagonistic pressures of external interests and institutions.
To reiterate my point, making entry to the contest contingent upon using Internet Explorer 8 not only limits participation to Windows users, but suggests that designing pages to favor IE8 over other browsers is somehow okay, or condoned by Microsoft — completely antagonistic to their recent successes in supporting web standards in the browser! Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 at the height of cynicism | FactoryCity
To a large extent these two approaches have been mutually exclusive, not to say antagonistic.
Now, as we all know, I am not a huge fan of speculations about essential differences between the sexes, although I do get that what Tannen is saying there is that there's no real reason that political discourse must necessarily be agonistic.
I'll be there steady ready to take up the fight of mother and daughter divided unsatisfied forever antagonistic cry sorrow let your ovary throb from the pain of my absence Women Among Us: Achy Obejas
These two antagonistical principles were at perpetual variance, it being the law of one to counteract whatever the other did. Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
In the first case, you can call the antagonistic principle “the existing order,” in the second, “antiquated prejudice.” The Art of Controversy
See involuntary muscles, antagonistic muscles. Biology Basic Facts
In particular, Muller anticipated that the antagonistic relationship between selection and recombination would be critical in models of sympatric speciation.
I have often wondered why so many theologians are keen on the very writers who are most overtly antagonistic to Christianity.
One tradition is the covenant one and is antagonistic to a straight forward nationalist sentiment.
A border is a dividing line marking an abrupt shift between two separate, sometimes antagonistic, entities.
The agonistic approach can create an atmosphere of defensiveness and fear - we saw it here over the foreshore and seabed debate.
his antagonistic brusqueness
They merely stirred in a nervous and wholly antagonistic way.
Since capitalism was to be the final form of society based on antagonistic class relations, socialism would be a classless society. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
In July 1997, we quantified only chases directed at other fish (some of which concluded with nips at other fish) because this was the most prevalent agonistic behavior we observed.
The very sound of the title arouses in my heart all that is antagonistic. The Puppet Crown
On the other hand, other modes of alliance also remained important, and relationships between patrilineal kin could be antagonistic as well as friendly.
Charging that the General Assembly of Illinois, as well as those of the other states, contain antagonistic elements which have retarded progress at the state level, the report recited how the labour movement, more and more, carries its appeals to the federal government. The Contemporary American StateFederal System
It must interpose likewise in the matter of industry, and exclude that antagonistical principle of competition -- the poisoned fount of so much virulence, violence and ruin. Edmond Dantès
Either this determination is not made, however, or it is confined to mutually antagonistic pockets of conviction within the church.
This is why the quality of "organizability" is stronger in men than in women; their common economic interests force them into relation, while the isolated and even antagonistic economic interests of women keep them from it. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
A volume might be filled with literary judgments by him as antagonistical and inconsistent as the sharpest antitheses. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
A strictly atheistic or agonistic explanation is still always possible. God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the World By Nicola Hoggard Creegan
Deeply antagonistic towards the Left, she opposed Bevanism.
But in Britain and the US many people feel ambivalent or antagonistic towards the mainstream popular resistance.
In addition to communicating through song, larks will raise the crest of feathers in their head during agonistic and courtship displays.
Matters had, broadly put, reached and remained at that stage, when in the century's last decade experimental examination of mammalian reflexes detected (1892) examples of inhibition of surprising potency and machine-like regularity, readily obtainable from the mammalian spinal cord in its action on the extensors of the hind limb; the inhibitory relaxation of the extension was linked with concomitant reflex contraction of their antagonistic muscles, the flexors. Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
: bright, glistening olid: foul-smelling oppugnant: combative, antagonistic, or contrary recrement: waste matter, refuse, dross reborant Club Troppo
Europe was antagonistic to the Unites States
Some students have trouble coping with friends or family members who are antagonistic to their teaching aspirations.
For example, interspecific agonistic interactions select for dull-colored male flycatchers that experience less interference from more aggressive, sympatric congeners.
There is concern among Republicans that the groups being funded by the grants will be antagonistic to the new administration.
In the society of survival, where the agonistic and vertiginous play of the potlatch is displaced by accumulation, an awareness of this has a deleterious effect on humanity.
Given the potential for expressive articulations to be negative rather than positive, and the potential for manipulative articulations to be coercive rather than diplomatic, we might want to relate Dunbar's protolinguistic gossip to the antagonistic systems of status-struggles as well as to grooming, factor in the bluster and breast-thumping, the antipathic as well as the sympathic, but otherwise ... Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3)
See antagonistic muscles, involuntary muscles, voluntary muscles. Biology Basic Facts
We feel that economic failure has created a situation where survival and law have been relegated to antagonistic positions.
The antagonistic forces that fight with each other can't remain unscathed from their experiences since their scheming is bound to cause a deep change in the balance that both initially had.
It recognizes that politics must have an underlying morality to it, but it is antagonistic to traditional morality.
He's extremely antagonistic towards all critics.
Antagonistic would be too strong," DeKay says, "but the tension is always there because the underlying theme here is trust: At any time, he can run, and we're both aware of that. 'White Collar': Well tailored for all involved
To distinguish between just another lake and an impact crater, one might look for stratigraphic evidence of impact debris at the bottom of the lake or in the area immediately surrounding the lake, evidence of disruption of the local bedrock (for example, the stratigraphic sequence at Barringer Crater in Arizona was folded over on itself in the area immediately around the crater), and for high pressure / low temperature mineral species such as stishovite (a high pressure / low temp polymorph of quartz which is considered diagonistic of impact events). RealClimate
There are days when I think that the two entities or disciplines are entirely immiscible and antagonistic, and others where they seem not just to complement each other but to be, in a strange way, twin enterprises. Chris Adrian discusses his first novel, Gob's Grief.
They reinforce the notion of antagonistic policing, rather than the consensual, even contractual law enforcement that has, at least notionally, been the traditional mark of the copper on his beat. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
agonistic poses
In an antagonistic what in biology is called agonistic encounter with another animal, a dog wants to appear to be the bigger, more powerful creature—so he makes a big-dog sound. INSIDE OF A DOG
The bureaucracy also offered a means of social control over potentially antagonistic classes.
slaves antagonistic to their masters
Their attitudes concerning poetry and its function in life are different, sometimes even antagonistic to one another.
We expected the hostages to be antagonistic toward the hostage taker. Christianity Today

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